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Sat, March 31, 2001  SCINEMA FEATURE (movie) SWAMP THING
No Swamp Thing movies or episodes are scheduled in April.

Swamp Thing (1981)
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

Louis Jourdan played the bad guy in both. Wes Craven directed the first one, in which a biologist's lab in the swamp is destroyed and he's assumed dead. But no, the stuff he was working on has mutated him into a human-like creature with white blood. When the bad guy goes after Adrienne Barbeau, the big green guy comes to the rescue. Leonard Maltin says Jourdan's "almost on a level with Vincent Price's standard routine."
In the second movie, almost a decade later, Swamp Thing's human stepdaughter (Heather Locklear) comes looking for him and gets nabbed by Jourdan's thugs. There's a pointless subplot by two little kids but overall a good movie.
Swamp Thing videos available include both movies, but not episodes of the syndicated tv series that followed.

And who can forget the great 1946 movie, Strangler Of The Swamp? "An innocent man, executed for a murder he didn't commit, returns from the dead seeking vengeance. One by one, he kills the townsfolk who sentenced him to death." It was made with
Rosemary La Planche, who of course was also the star of
Devil Bat's Daughter.

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Fri, 8/11/00  -  MARATHON:
                  LEGEND OF THE SWAMP MAIDEN     
                  THE SHIPMENT                   
                  BIRTHMARKS                     
                  DARK SIDE OF THE MIRROR        
                  CHANGES                        
                  HIDE IN THE NIGHT              
                  IN THE BEGINNING               
                  GROTESQUERY                    
                  MIST DEMEANOR                  
                  THE WATCHERS                   
                  EASY PREY                      
                  AN EYE FOR AN EYE              
                August 26 (movie) SWAMP THING (1981)
9/29/00  -  Marathon:
                 10:00 AM, LIVING IMAGE                  
                 10:30 AM, THE DEATH OF DR. ARCANE       
                 11:00 AM, SPIRIT OF THE SWAMP           
                 11:30 AM, FALCO                         
                 12:00 PM, WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES       
                 12:30 PM, TREASURE                      
                  1:00 PM, NIGHT OF THE DYING            
                  1:30 PM, SILENT SCREAMS                
                  2:00 PM, A JURY OF HIS FEARS           
                  2:30 PM, SONATA                        
                  3:00 PM, TATANIA                       
                  3:30 PM, MIRANDOR'S BRAIN              
11/10/00  Marathon -          
                 11:00 AM  TOUCH OF DEATH                
                 11:30 AM POISONOUS                     
                 12:00 PM HEART OF THE MANTIS           
                 12:30 PM DEAD AND MARRIED              
                 1:00 PM  FEAR ITSELF                   
                 1:30 PM  THE HURTING                   
                 2:00 PM  THE CURSE                     
                 2:30 PM  EYE OF THE STORM              
                 3:00 PM  THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS   
                 3:30 PM  NEVER ALONE                   
Sun, 11/26/00, 3:00 PM (movie) SWAMP THING
Tue, 12/12/00,  Marathon -        
                 11:00 AM THE EMERALD HEART             
                 11:30 AM BLOOD WIND                    
                 12:00 PM THE PROMETHEUS PARABOLA       
                 12:30 PM SWAMP OF DREAMS               
                  1:00 PM THE POWER OF DARKNESS         
                  1:30 PM VENDETTA                      
                  2:00 PM RITE OF PASSAGE               
                  2:30 PM THE BURNING TIMES             
                  3:00 PM JUDGEMENT DAY                 
                  3:30 PM SPECTER OF DEATH